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Explained large-angle particle scattering through encounters with a concentrated central atomic charge, using the experimental evidence of Geiger and Marsden.
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Scientific scope
The 1911 paper does not determine the sign of the central charge from this scattering argument or settle atomic stability. Its historical charge estimates are not modern atomic numbers. Rutherford is the paper’s author; the cited experimental work remains a separate contribution. WRS inspected selected original pages, not every derivation or measurement.
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Ernest Rutherford
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Rutherford: scattering and concentrated atomic charge
Explained large-angle particle scattering through encounters with a concentrated central atomic charge, using the experimental evidence of Geiger and Marsden.
Scientific scope
The 1911 paper does not determine the sign of the central charge from this scattering argument or settle atomic stability. Its historical charge estimates are not modern atomic numbers. Rutherford is the paper’s author; the cited experimental work remains a separate contribution. WRS inspected selected original pages, not every derivation or measurement.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Ernest Rutherford
Listed source contributors; individual labor shares are not measured